I'm tired of these bums. They squeeze and skim and scoop dollars...All I want to do is support my (mostly conservative) parish, but I know for everything dollar I give 30+ cents is going to fund this Marxist garbage. I want to support retired priests and large swathes of that money is snatched. We're hitting the point where we'll have to abandon the patrimony we've been accustomed to for tge sake of starving this beast...My generally rational, conservative, excellent pastor insists that Catholics should tithe without critical thought, as a free gift to God. I disagree. I refuse to abandon common sense. To abandon God-given discernment, to look the other way and fund destruction. Woe to them that call good evil and evil good.
The Church has stood as a bulwark against cultural Marxism, until now, relatively suddenly, those in power promote Marxism...But I'm supposed to pretend not to notice that and keep giving as if all,is fine and well?
Ticks me off.
You can always tithe to the Salvation Army, like I do. They are an actual church as well as a charity. I prayerfully take 10% off the top of each paycheck (before taxes) and send that portion to them. Plus, their tax deductibility does not hurt, but I try to keep that as a secondary reason.